Todd Beamer recited the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm with Lisa Jefferson on the phone. Todd Beamer told Lisa Jefferson that the group was planning to “jump on” the hijackers and fly the plane into the ground before the hijackers’ could dive into another American target. They discussed their options, and voted, then they stormed the cockpit to take over the plane.
They were joined by other passengers, including Lou Nacke, Rich Guadagno, Alan Beaven, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, Linda Gronlund, and William Cashman, along with flight attendants Sandra Bradshaw and Cee Cee Ross-Lyles. The passengers and flight crew decided to act.Īccording to accounts of cell phone conversations, Beamer, along with Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick, formed a plan to take the plane back from the hijackers.
When the hijackers turned the plane sharply south, Beamer exclaimed, “We’re going down! We’re going down!” He also stated that two of the hijackers had knives, and that one appeared to have a bomb strapped around his waist. With FBI agents listening in on their call, Todd Beamer informed Lisa Jefferson that hijackers had taken control of United 93, and that one passenger had been killed. Todd Beamer tried to place a credit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat, but was routed to a customer service representative, who passed him on to GTE airphone supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Several passengers made phone calls to their loved ones, who told them about the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, and a third plane that crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Within six minutes, the plane changed course, heading for Washington, D.C. The passengers were herded to the back of the plane.
Moments later, Al-Qaeda Islamist hijackers took over the plane’s controls, disengaged the autopilot, and told passengers, “Keep remaining sitting. Three minutes later, Cleveland controllers could hear screams over the cockpit’s open microphone. At 9:25 am, Flight 93 was above eastern Ohio, and its pilot radioed Cleveland controllers to inquire about an alert that had been flashed on his cockpit computer screen to “beware of cockpit intrusion.” United 93 was climbing to cruising altitude, heading west over New Jersey into Pennsylvania. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03 am, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. United Flight 93 was scheduled to depart at 8:00am, but the Boeing 757 did not depart until 42 minutes later due to runway traffic delays.įour minutes later, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The passengers and crew of United Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save the White House or the U.S. During the struggle, the Boeing 757 crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Todd Beamer was one of 33 passengers on aboard United Flight 93 who attempted to regain control of the aircraft from Al-Qaeda Islamist hijackers. Todd Morgan Beamer was an American man aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. United Airlines Flight 93, September 11, 2001
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